# Quote — Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel

> Remember, you once said, Lije, that people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don’t know how to fix themselves.

- Author: [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md)
- Book: [The Caves of Steel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-caves-of-steel.md)
- Page: 148
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#The_Caves_of_Steel_(1954)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-caves-of-steel/remember-you-once

## More from this book

> It was the addition of status that brought the little things: a more comfortable seat here, a better cut of meat there, a shorter wait in line at the other place. To the philosophical mind, these items might seem scarcely worth any great trouble to acquire.
>
> Yet no one, however philosophical, could give up those privileges, once acquired, without a pang. That was the point.

p. 85 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-caves-of-steel/it-was-the.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md)

> “Logically, developing children are carefully screened for physical and mental defects before being allowed to mature.”
>
> Baley interrupted. “You mean you kill them if they don’t—”
>
> “If they don’t measure up. Quite painlessly, I assure you. The notion shocks you, just as the Earthman’s uncontrolled breeding shocks us.”

p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-caves-of-steel/logically-developing-children.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [children](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children.md)

> Men grew desperate and the border between bitter frustration and wild destruction is sometimes easily crossed.

p. 22 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-caves-of-steel/men-grew-desperate.md)